Main trend through millennia of China's history is the southward movement of its main population.
— Yevardiaีฒ (@haravayin_hogh) September 14, 2026
Repeated nomad devastations, deforestation & desertification, assimilation of aboriginals, new superior rice strains, finally shift of world trade from the Silk Road to the oceans. pic.twitter.com/JcxUS879ea
“When misguided public opinion honours what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice… a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.”
— Mark W. (@DurhamWASP) September 13, 2026
Frederic Bastiat pic.twitter.com/pg4s6XX6kM
Aivazovsky painted to overwhelm the room.
— Impressions (@impression_ists) September 14, 2026
You can't get that impression from a scroll. https://t.co/7ThX8yBTnP pic.twitter.com/1gfhQUvNBb
— ๐๐ค๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ฎ๐พ๐ง๐ช๐ข๐๐จ (@LowEffortHuman) September 14, 2026
This makes sense. It suggests a lack of commitment, a willingness to have one foot out of the door. pic.twitter.com/ze0bx0lYWE
— Carl Benjamin ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ (@Sargon_of_Akkad) September 15, 2026
In his book A Culture of Growth, Joel Mokyr describes how universities in early modern Europe were not the main centres of innovation. They were largely conservative organisations where scholars typically sought textual purity, not scientific truth.
— Lionel Page (@page_eco) September 14, 2026
What made the Scientific… pic.twitter.com/SpYnHjSQzo
It might seem surprising to you that a climate change protest would be focused on promoting terrorists until you realize such protests never really had anything to do with climate change.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) September 13, 2026
Climate change, anti-Israel, BLM, wealth gap etc. It’s all the same thing to this group.… https://t.co/JOs2h9VPIH
Fun fact.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 15, 2026
When a cat sees its prey, its vertical slit pupils dilate and widen significantly to let in maximum light and sharpen its focus on the target.
Many people assume that cats narrow their eyes into thin, menacing slits when they are about to attack. In reality, narrow… pic.twitter.com/DEtz69m2gC
Can't believe we're still using boring pointers ๐ pic.twitter.com/of1GRKTwBA
— MedievalistMatt (@medievalistmatt) September 14, 2026
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